Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Behind the Scenes of DeGaulle's Return to Power" is the topic of tonight's coffee hour sponsored by the Young Republican Club at 7:30 Adams House Lower Common Room. A. Nicholas Wahl, instructor in Government will speak on the subject he was able to study closely last fall...
Under the present plan, some students contribute varying amounts to a House fund, so that roommates with less financial resources can be charged lower rents. The new system will replace these contributions with a University provided grant...
...complete high school, and for the brightest, a hope of going on to college. This week, after more than two years' trial, the New York City board of education pronounced the experiment a success, planned to ask for $500,000 to extend the program to some 30 lower-income-area schools...
...passes, among haiku composers, without hundreds of commemorative haiku, frequently written on the spot. A thief, about to be hanged for his crime, couched his last words in the haiku form: "As for the end -/ that I'll hear in the next world./ cuckoo, my friend." For the lower-brows there are even earthy haiku, called senryu in honor of their creator, who died more than a century ago; senryu fanciers publish 30 magazines of their...
...Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization ruled that the U.S. must accept B.L.H.'s lowest domestic bid of $1,757,210 for two hydraulic turbines for the Greers Ferry Dam in Arkansas, chuck out the much lower bid of $1,450,700 by Britain's English Electric Co.. Ltd. Hearing the news, the British Foreign Office loudly protested, complained that it had obviously been "a waste of time" for English Electric to bid on the job in the first place. The British press joined in with an attack on U.S. trade policies...